Yes, quite well. Better than well, in fact. I've a cozy home in Highstorm, thanks to Lady Yima, and I'm getting back into the practice of wizardry... why, it's the closest I've had to a normal life since my world died!

[ The drunken smile that accompanies that declaration contrasts with it so thoroughly that it can only be a joke. But, to a certain extent, it is true as well — Kenos has been wonderful to him so far.

As they continue down the sidewalk, Howl gestures to the dropped-open door of a bar ahead. ]

There's the place there. It's a wine bar. You like wine, yes? [ they had wine together that one time... ]